T IMES
SOUTHERN
Guidelines
for Route 9W
Designs pitched in
Marlborough
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
Marlborough Conservation Advisory
Committee [CAC] member, Cindy Lanzetta,
recently updated the Marlborough Town
Board and the public on what the CAC,
“has been doing and where we’re at.”
Lanzetta said a year ago the Town
Board asked the CAC to develop design
guidelines for the Route 9W corridor,
“something that many of our planning
documents called for.” She said the CAC
began looking at what other nearby towns
have been including in their guidelines,
especially noting the strides that the Town
of Newburgh has been making in recent
years.
Lanzetta said there were professional
people in town who volunteered their time
to craft a draft document that targeted the
corridor.
“We put in a countless number of
volunteer hours and the group met
regularly every month,” she said. “We ran
this draft by the Ulster County Planning
Department and they gave us input and
we incorporated what they asked of us as
well.”
Robert Leibowitz, Principal Planner
for the Ulster County Planning Board,
responded to Lanzetta last November,
offering written comments on the CAC’s
Draft document. The document is targeted
for new commercial construction and the
rehabilitation of existing buildings in the
Route 9W corridor.
“Overall the document highlights most
of the key concerns for design standards
[and] site elements. The section on
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‘Everyone lends a hand’
Highland fundraiser supports local family
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
On Thursday, April 11 the Highland
community held a musical and gourmet
desert fundraiser for Eric Munson at the
High School cafeteria. Munson has been
struggling with health issues for the
past 15 months and the event was a way
for the community to come together to
support him and his family in their time
of need.
The evening kicked off with the High
School Jazz Ensemble performing Duke
Ellington’s ‘Echoes of Harlem,’ followed
by pianist Lena Tran who played the
classical selection ‘Ronda Alla Turca’ by
Mozart.
The evening kept switching gears and
personnel, moving freely between jazz,
rock n’ roll, pop, classical, standards and
blues.
Micki Munson said in January 2018
her husband appeared to be having a
stroke but it was actually a seizure. A
visit to the hospital revealed that he had
tumors in his head, which led to him
undergoing major brain surgery several
days later. Micki said the doctors were
able to remove most of the tumors.
“Since then he has been doing all
sorts of treatments [but] the tumor
started to grow back last December,”
she said. “We’ve started a new kind of
protocol in hopes to stall it out. The
prognosis of this disease is 12 to 14
months and we’re at 15, so that’s a good
thing.”
Micki said in January her husband
suffered a stroke and two weeks later
she found him on the ground having a
seizure that left him with some language
difficulties, “but you know what, he’s a
Photos by Mark Reynolds
Micki and Eric Munson thanked everyone for their love and support during this challeng-
ing time.
fighter.”
The couple has been married for
25 years this month and have five
children. Matt and Abbey graduated
from Highland High School, Zoey is a
Junior, Luke is a Sophomore and they
are raising a nephew who is in the
seventh grade.
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Micki said of the evening, “I’m blown
away, it’s completely overwhelming. It
started with a parent of a musician in
the jazz band. The boys all wanted to do
something and it snowballed from there.
It’s an amazing community.”
Micki said her husband wears a cloth
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